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A Portuguese fleet becomes the object of conflict between Roman gods.

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For this, and not for Nature’s fault, be sure Virgil nor Homer rise to strike the lyre; nor shall rise ever, an this mode endure, pious Aeneas or Achilles dire. But⁠—worst of all⁠—it maketh man so dour, austere, rough, frigid to poetic fire; so rude, so heedless to be known or know, few heed the want and many will it so.

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